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A Wee Homicide in the Hotel By Fran Stewart: Review/Giveaway

Details at the end of this post on how to enter to win a copy of A Wee Homicide in the Hotel. We also have a link to order it from Amazon, and from an indie bookstore where a portion goes to help support KRL.

Hamelin, Vermont, is host to the Annual Highland Festival which includes caber tossing, sword dancing, and a lot of shopping. The retailers rely on the cash flowing in this time of year to tide them over the slow sales months. The ScotShop is no exception. Peggy Winn and her fourteenth century ghost, Dirk, love to see the shop crowded with tourists who want to take home a piece of Scotland—or at least a tartan.

Big Willie is back after a few year’s absence. He’s a sweet, older guy, always seen with his little Scottish terrier. Peg is surprised to not see them at the opening ceremony, but there is a big crowd. When he misses his own event as well, Peg is really worried. There’s a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign on the door, and the hotel is not willing to open the door. It’s when she spots Silla, the Scottie, rushing across the street right in front of cars, she knows something is terribly wrong.

A check of the hotel room reveals Big Willie’s body in the bathroom. Apparently Silla had been locked in the bathroom with the body and escaped. Since Willie hadn’t been around in some years, a motive may come from his past time in town or something from his current life followed him. With the help of Dirk, Peg vows to find the truth for Silla’s sake.

This is the third book in the ScotShop Mystery series. Peg gets better with each. As a ghost, Dirk could easily be a distraction from the storyline but instead blends in with the surroundings especially as his powers to move more freely grow stronger. There’s a lot of information about clans and Scotland, the games and more, but it is scattered seamlessly throughout the story and never intrudes. For an enjoyable read, take a quick trip to Hamelin and stay a while.

For the soft-hearted, like me, no dogs are harmed!

To enter to win a copy of A Wee Homicide in the Hotel, simply email KRL at krlcontests@gmail[dot]com by replacing the [dot] with a period, and with the subject line “hotel,” or comment on this article. A winner will be chosen March 4, 2017. U.S. residents only. If entering via email please include your mailing address, and if via comment please include your email address.

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Sandra Murphy lives in the shadow of the Arch, in the land of blues, booze and shoes—St Louis, Missouri. While writing magazine articles to support her mystery book habit, she secretly polishes mystery books of her own, hoping, someday, they will see the light of Barnes and Noble and a Kindle. You can find several of Sandra’s short stories at Untreed Reads including her newest, “Arthur,” included in the anthology titled, Flash and Bang, available now. Look for Denali, in the anthology Dogs and Dragons.

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One thing I enjoy about guest blogging is that I get to hear from people who’ve never met me on the page before. I hope you’ll give me a try.A recent post from Fran Stewart: Technology – Works or Doesn’t Work?

You might want to start with book #1, even if you win this one, Johnna, simply because the story grows so much over the course of the three books. This book is where you find the answers to a lot of the questions that arose from the first two — why Dirk is here in the 21st century, for instance.A recent post from Fran Stewart: Technology – Works or Doesn’t Work?

The two trips I had to Scotland were truly magical, Elizabeth. I fell in love with Ullapool, a small fishing village on the west coast, was ower-awed by Edinburgh Castle, and cried at the Stewart stone at Culloden. I do hope you get there someday.A recent post from Fran Stewart: Technology – Works or Doesn’t Work?

An annual Highland Festival, shopping, a murder mystery, a ScottShop, a ghost and the left behind poor little Scottish Terrier Silla!Thanks for telling me no dogs were harmed, I’m a dog softie too!Love to win a copy! Thank you!!

Silla goes through some tough moments, of course (after all, it IS a murder mystery!) but I’d never let her get hurt. Scotties are durable dogs indeed, as I’ve learned through my research with some real dogs as I wrote these books. I love their faithfulness, too.A recent post from Fran Stewart: Technology – Works or Doesn’t Work?

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